New Books - May 2017
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi - Dear Ijeawele, or, A feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions
- Allen, Jonathan - Shattered: inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign (ebook available)
- Baldwin, Alec - Nevertheless: a memoir
- Bosker, Bianca - Cork dork: a wine-fueled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters, and rogue scientists who taught me to live for taste
- Brownmiller, Susan - My city highrise garden
- Callahan, David - The givers: wealth, power, and philanthropy in a new gilded age
- Cannell, Michael T. - Incendiary: the psychiatrist, the mad bomber, and the invention of criminal profiling
- The card catalog: books, cards, and literary treasures (Library of Congress;foreword by Carla Hayden; text by Peter Devereaux)
- Charman, Isobel - The zoo: the wild and wonderful tale of the founding of the London Zoo: 1826-1851
- Chew-Bose, Durga - Too much and not the mood
- Davidson, Justin - Magnetic city: a walking companion to New York
- Dilworth, Thomas - David Jones: engraver, soldier, painter, poet
- Eliot, Marc - Charlton Heston: Hollywood's last icon
- Farnsworth, Elizabeth, - Train through time: a life, real and imagined
- Feiler, Bruce S. - The first love story: Adam, Eve, and us/
- Finkel, Michael - The stranger in the woods: the extraordinary story of the last true hermit
- FitzGerald, Frances - The Evangelicals: the struggle to shape America
- Forman, James - Locking up our own: crime and punishment in Black America
- Gaitskill, Mary - Somebody with a little hammer: essays
- Gerard, Sarah - Sunshine State: essays
- Glück, Louise - American originality: essays on poetry
- Grann, David - Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI (ebook available)
- Guinn, Jeff - The road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
- Harrison, Jim - A really big lunch
- Haskell, David George - The songs of trees: stories from nature's great connectors
- Kapsambelis, Niki - The inheritance: a family on the front lines of the battle against Alzheimer's disease
- Kelly, Helena - Jane Austen, the secret radical
- Lamott, Anne - Hallelujah anyway: rediscovering mercy
- McCann, Colum - Letters to a young writer: some practical and philosophical advice
- McCullough, David G. - The American spirit: who we are and what we stand for
- Merridale, Catherine - Lenin on the train
- Meyer, G. J. - The world remade: America in World War I
- Morris, James McGrath - The ambulance drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a friendship made and lost in war
- The Moth presents All these wonders: true stories about facing the unknown (Catherine Burns, ed.; foreword by Neil Gaiman)
- The New York Times Book of crime: more than 166 years of covering the beat (Kevin Flynn, ed.; foreword by Richard Price)
- Nichols, David A. - Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- Nichols, Tom - The death of expertise: the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters
- O'Rourke, P. J. - How the hell did this happen?: the election of 2016
- O'Toole, Garson - Hemingway didn't say that: the truth behind familiar quotations
- Rapport, Michael - The unruly city: Paris, London and New York in the age of revolution
- Rees, Laurence - The Holocaust: a new history
- Rosenthal, Elisabeth - An American sickness: how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back
- Rosnay, Tatiana de - Manderley forever: a biography of Daphne Du Maurier (translated from the French)
- Sankovitch, Nina - The Lowells of Massachusetts: an American family
- Shapiro, Dani - Hourglass
- Shirley, Craig - Reagan rising: the decisive years, 1976-1980
- Siegel, Lee - The draw: a memoir
- Sitaraman, Ganesh - The crisis of the middle-class constitution: why economic inequality threatens our republic
- Smith, Sally Bedell - Prince Charles: the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Swafford, Jan - Language of the spirit: an introduction to classical music
- Tremlett, Giles - Isabella of Castile: Europe's first great queen
- Weiss, Stanley A. - Being dead is bad for business: a memoir
- Whipple, Chris - The gatekeepers: how the White House Chiefs of Staff define every presidency
- Williams, Florence - The nature fix: why nature makes us happier, healthier, and more creative
- Winder, Elizabeth - Marilyn in Manhattan: her year of joy
- Winters, John J. - Sam Shepard: a life
- Womack, Jack - Flying saucers are real!: the UFO library of Jack Womack
- Zinoman, Jason - Letterman: the last giant of late night
FICTION
- Ain-Krupa, Julia - The upright heart: a novel
- Aslam, Nadeem - The golden legend
- Ball, Bethany - What to do about the Solomons
- Buntin, Julie - Marlena: a novel
- De Muriel, Oscar - A fever of the blood
- Dunn, Sarah - The arrangement: a novel
- El Akkad, Omar - American war
- Grant, Richard - Cave dwellers
- Greenidge, Kaitlyn - We love you, Charlie Freeman: a novel
- Grøndahl, Jens Christian - Often I am happy (translated from the Danish)
- Gundar-Goshen, Ayelet - Waking lions (translated from the Hebrew)
- Hoffman, Cara - Running
- Ko, Lisa - The leavers: a novel
- Kostova, Elizabeth - The shadow land: a novel
- Macomber, Debbie - If not for you: a novel
- Magris, Claudio - Blameless (translated from the Italian)
- Mason, Richard - Who killed Piet Barol?
- McCall Smith, Alexander - My Italian bulldozer
- Pritchett, Laura - The blue hour: a novel
- Riley, Gwendoline - First love: a novel
- Shattuck, Jessica - The women in the castle (ebook available)
- Shreve, Anita - The stars are fire
- Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro - Devils in daylight
- Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro - The maids (translated from the Japanese)
- Tinti, Hannah - The twelve lives of Samuel Hawley (translated from the Japanese)
- Whitman, Walt - Life and adventures of Jack Engle: an auto-biography: a story of New York at the present time in which the reader will find some familiar characters (recently discovered, previously unpublished novel)
- Zambra, Alejandro - Multiple choice (translated from the Spanish)
More recent fiction arrivals below.
MYSTERIES
- Ashworth, A. R. - Souls of men: an Elaine Hope novel*
- Baldacci, David - The fix
- Berry, Steve - The Lost Order
- Boylan, Jennifer Finney - Long black veil: a novel
- Brekke, Jørgen - The fifth element
- Brett, Simon - Mrs Pargeter's public relations: a Mrs Pargeter mystery
- Caputo, Philip - Some rise by sin: a novel
- Carter, Miranda - The Devil's feast*
- Clark, Mary Higgins - All by myself, alone: a novel
- Cleeves, Ann - Cold earth*
- Dahl, Julia - Conviction: a novel
- Deaver, Jeffery - The burial hour: a Lincoln Rhyme novel
- Granger, Ann - The dead woman of Deptford: an Inspector Ben Ross mystery*
- Hämäläinen, Karo - Cruel is the night (translated from the Finnish)
- Harris, C. S. - Where the dead lie*
- Hawkins, Paula - Into the water*
- Hillerman, Anne - Song of the lion
- Kasasian, M. R. C. - The secrets of Gaslight Lane*
- Kerr, Philip - Prussian blue: a Bernie Gunther novel (ebook available)
- Kovac, Christina - The cutaway: a novel
- Leon, Donna - Earthly remains (ebook available)
- Mackay, Malcolm - Every night I dream of hell*
- Mackenzie, Jassy - Bad seeds
- Malliet, G. M. - Devil's breath: a Max Tudor mystery*
- Minato, Kanae - Penance (translated from the Japanese)
- Miranda, Megan - The perfect stranger: a novel
- Monroe, J. S. - Find me
- Naughtie, James - Paris spring
- Norman, Howard A. - My darling detective
- Oldham, Nick - Bad blood: a Henry Christie thriller*
- Paretsky, Sara - Fallout
- Patterson, James - The black book
- Perry, Anne - Murder on the Serpentine*
- Quirk, Matthew - Dead man switch
- Sandford, John - Golden prey
- Sansom, Ian - Essex poison*
- Scottoline, Lisa - One perfect lie
- Turnbull, Peter - A cold case: a Maurice Mundy mystery*
- Woods, Stuart - Fast & loose
*indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Bausch, Richard - Living in the weather of the world
- MacLeod, Alison - All the beloved ghosts: stories
- Russo, Richard - Trajectory: stories
- The sorcerer's apprentice: an anthology of magical tales (Jack Zipes, ed.)
POETRY
- Partridge, Elise - The if borderlands: collected poems
- Shapiro, David - In memory of an angel
- Shaughnessy, Brenda, - So much synth
- Sheers, Owen - Pink mist
More recent poetry arrivals below.
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Bloom, Harold - Falstaff: give me life 822.33 C
- Brooks, Peter - Flaubert in the ruins of Paris: the story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year 823.08 B
- Chamberlain, Kathy - Jane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian world: a story of love, work, marriage, and friendship 92 C286 C
- Nayar, Pramod K. - Postcolonialism: a guide for the perplexed 809.9 N
- Paley, Grace - A Grace Paley reader: stories, essays, and poetry 828 P
- Steiner, George - A long Saturday: conversations 401 S
- Wood, Frances - Great books of China: from ancient times to the present 895.1 W
- Wood, Michael - On Empson 821.09 W
FICTION
- Babel', Isaac - Odessa stories (translated from the Russian) F B
- Énard, Mathias - Compass (translated from the French) F E
- Letter writing among poets: from William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop (Jonathan Ellis, ed.) 821.09 L
- Maupassant, Guy de - Like death (New York Review Books Classics; translated from the French) F M
- The Penguin book of Dutch short stories (Joost Zwagerman, ed.) F P
- Zukofsky, Louis - Collected fiction F Z
POETRY
- Burnside, John - Still life with feeding snake 821 B
- Emanuel, Lynn - The nerve of it: poems new and selected 821 E
- Franaszek, Andrzej - Milosz: a biography 92 M6613 F
- Hass, Robert - A little book on form: an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry 809.1 H
- Loeffelholz, Mary - The value of Emily Dickinson 821.09 L
BOOKS & READING
- Berger, Sidney E. - The dictionary of the book: a glossary for book collectors, booksellers, librarians, and others Ref. 010 B
- Fleming, Juliet - Cultural graphology: writing after Derrida 194 F
- Romney, J. P. - Printer's error: irreverent stories from book history 655.1 R
ART
- Francesco Vanni: art in late Renaissance Siena (John Marciari and Suzanne Boorsch) 759.5 V
- Michelangelo Buonarroti - Michelangelo's notebooks: the poetry, letters, and art of the great master 709.2 M
- Rachleff, Melissa - Inventing downtown: artist-run galleries in New York City, 1952-1965 709.7471 R
- Sculpture in the age of Donatello: Renaissance masterpieces from Florence Cathedral (Timothy Verdon and Daniel M. Zolli, eds.) 735 S
- Spike, John T. - Fairfield Porter, an American classic 759.1 S
- Thomson, Richard - Seurat's Circus sideshow 759.4 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Bradley, Adam - The poetry of pop 784.6 B
- Gant, Andrew - O sing unto the Lord: a history of English church music 783 G
- Haupt, Lyanda Lynn. - Mozart's starling 598.2 H
- Shepherd, Simon - The Cambridge introduction to modern British theatre 792.0942 S
- Sweet, Jeffrey - What playwrights talk about when they talk about writing 808.2 S
BIOGRAPHY
- Altemus, Althea McDowell - Big bosses: a working girl's memoir of Jazz Age America 92 A46593 A
- Arrington, Lauren - Revolutionary lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz 920 M3458 A
- Bew, John - Citizen Clem: a biography of Attlee 92 A8851 B
- Bosworth, R. J. B. - Claretta: Mussolini's last lover 92 P477 B
- Carrington, Leonora - Down below 92 C3186 C
- Freely, John - The house of memory: reflections on youth and war 92 F8545 F
- Qvortrup, Matthew - Angela Merkel: Europe's most influential leader 92 M565 Q
- Tisserand, Michael - Krazy: George Herriman, a life in black and white 92 H567 T
DEATH & DYING
- Almond, Philip C. - Afterlife: a history of life after death 237 A
- Lesy, Michael - The forbidden zone 306.9 L
- Neumann, Ann - The good death: an exploration of dying in America 306.9 N
- Schillace, Brandy - Death's summer coat: what the history of death and dying can tell us about life and living 306.9 S
HISTORY
- Davies, Philip - Lost England: 1870-1930 942.08 D OVERSIZE
- De Bellaigue, Christopher - The Islamic enlightenment: the struggle between faith and reason: 1798 to modern times 909 D
- Karp, Matthew - This vast southern empire: slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy 326 K
- Large, David Clay - The grand spas of Central Europe: a history of intrigue, politics, art, and healing 940.2 L
- Norwich, John Julius - Four princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the obsessions that forged modern Europe 940.22 N
- Schwartz, Marie Jenkins - Ties that bound: founding first ladies and slaves 973.4 S
- Sharfstein, Daniel J. - Thunder in the mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War 973.8 S
- Smith, Kathleen E. - Moscow 1956: the silenced spring 947.085 S
- Wright, James Edward - Enduring Vietnam: an American generation and its war 973.923 W
ANTIQUITY
- The book of Greek & Roman folktales, legends, & myths (edited, translated, and introduced by William Hansen) 398.2 B
- Hagen, Rose-Marie - Egypt: people, gods, pharaohs 932 H OVERSIZE
- Kulikowski, Michael - The triumph of empire: the Roman world from Hadrian to Constantine 937.06 K
- Plutarch - The age of Caesar: five Roman lives (translated by Pamela Mensch; James Romm, ed.; introduction by Mary Beard) 888.8 P
WAR
- Nolan, Cathal J. - The allure of battle: a history of how wars have been won and lost 355 N
- Stewart, Andrew - The first victory: the Second World War and the East African campaign 940.542 S
- Weinberger, Sharon - The imagineers of war: the untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world 355.07 W
PHILOSOPHY
- Eagleton, Terry - Materialism 140 E
- Watts, Edward Jay - Hypatia: the life and legend of an ancient philosopher 186 W
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
- Cassedy, Steven - To the other shore: the Russian Jewish intellectuals who came to America 305.86 C
- Jay, Martin - The dialectical imagination: a history of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950 301 J
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Greenlaw, Lavinia - Questions of travel: William Morris in Iceland 914.91 G
- Thomsen, Moritz - The saddest pleasure: a journey on two rivers : a memoir 918.1 T
- Watson, Paul - Ice ghosts: the epic hunt for the lost Franklin Expedition 919.8 W
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Kaufman, Henry - Tectonic shifts in financial markets: people, policies, and institutions 332 K
- Sachs, Jeffrey - Building the new American economy: smart, fair, and sustainable 330.973 S
- Subacchi, Paola - The people's money: how China is building a global currency 332.4 S
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- McDougall, Walter A. - The tragedy of U.S. foreign policy: how America's civil religion betrayed the national interest 327.73 M
- Pleshakov, Konstantin - The Crimean nexus: Putin's war and the clash of civilizations 947.7 P
- Rachman, Gideon - Easternization: Asia's rise and America's decline from Obama to Trump and beyond 327.5 R
SUPERNATURAL & PARANORMAL
- Braudy, Leo - Haunted: on ghosts, witches, vampires, zombies, and other monsters of the natural and supernatural worlds 303.6 B
- Jacobsen, Annie - Phenomena: the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis 355.34 J
- Narratives of the witchcraft cases, 1648-1706 (George Lincoln Burr, ed.) 345 N
RELIGION
- Lopez, Donald S. - The Lotus Sutra: a biography 294 L
- Ryrie, Alec - Protestants: the faith that made the modern world 284 R
NEW YORK
- Phillips-Fein, Kim - Fear city: New York's fiscal crisis and the rise of austerity politics 330.973 P
- Sadik-Khan, Janette. - Streetfight: handbook for an urban revolution 388 S